Dead Wrong: Cali Funeral Home Forced To Exhume Body After Adamantly Insisting They Had Correctly Buried A Man’s Wife

California Mortuary Forced To Exhume After Burying Wrong Woman

Evan Davidson lived with his wife for 51 years. But when he told morticians that the woman in the open casket wasn’t Darlene Davidson, they politely told him he was mistaken.

“I looked at her and said, ‘Well this don’t look like my wife at all,'” Davidson, 73, told KABC-TV. “They kept telling me it was, but it’s just because she had been embalmed and she was sick.”

They were wrong.

Simpson Family Mortuary of Inglewood acknowledged Monday that the woman it buried on March 1 was not Davidson’s 82-year-old wife.

Now who would know this lady best, the man married to her for 51 years, or some a$$hole that just met her last week?

Three days after the funeral, an employee called and asked Davidson to come and identify a body. The worker said a woman was “jumping up and down” and claiming that a body on view wasn’t her departed mother’s, Davidson said.

He went to the mortuary.

“I saw my wife, and the shock just knocked me down,” he said.

The mortuary has offered to exhume the body and to pay the costs of burying both women. Davidson’s wife was scheduled to be reburied on Wednesday.

“Our main concern is for these people to receive the dignity and respect they deserve, and put the individual to rest. We are not sweeping it under the rug,” mortuary spokesman Reginald Black said in a statement. “We made an error and we want to rectify our error and do whatever we can do to make them feel better.”

The report states that Mr. Davidson has contacted an attorney, sounds like he might want a couple dollars for his post-mortem problems.